Crime Without Passion

1h 10min

Crime

Drama

Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance with Carmen, she is so distraught that she becomes suicidal. Seizing the gun from Carmen, he accidentally shoots her, and thinking she's dead, concocts a series of increasingly outlandish alibis to cover his tracks under the guidance of a ghostly apparition that is his alter ego.

Production Companies

Hecht-MacArthur Productions

Paramount Pictures

Cast

Claude Rains

Claude Rains

Lee Gentry
Margo

Margo

Carmen Brown
Whitney Bourne

Whitney Bourne

Katy Costello
Stanley Ridges

Stanley Ridges

Eddie White
Leslie Adams

Leslie Adams

State's Attorney O'Brien
Dorothy Bradshaw

Dorothy Bradshaw

Jury Member (uncredited)
Fanny Brice

Fanny Brice

Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
Jack Carr

Jack Carr

Defendant (uncredited)
Esther Dale

Esther Dale

Miss Keeley (uncredited)
Fraye Gilbert

Fraye Gilbert

Jury Member (uncredited)
Greta Granstedt

Greta Granstedt

Della (uncredited)
Helen Hayes

Helen Hayes

Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht

Court Interviewer with Pipe (uncredited)
Charles Anthony Hughes

Charles Anthony Hughes

Man (uncredited)
Charles Kennedy

Charles Kennedy

Police Lt. Norton (uncredited)
Charles MacArthur

Charles MacArthur

Second Interviewer (uncredited)
Cornelius MacSunday

Cornelius MacSunday

Gentry's Butler (uncredited)
Marjorie Main

Marjorie Main

Backstage Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)
Marion Martin

Marion Martin

Theatre Cashier (uncredited)
Fuller Mellish

Fuller Mellish

Judge (uncredited)
Betty Real

Betty Real

Waitress Slapping Lee Gentry (uncredited)
Betty Sundmark

Betty Sundmark

Jury Member (uncredited)
Paula Trueman

Paula Trueman

Buster Malloy (uncredited)

Release date

30th Aug 1934

Status

Released

Spoken languages

English